Topic: Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-28 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: AT a moment when Filipinos are tightening their belts amid rising food prices, volatile fuel costs and deepening economic anxiety, the country’s political leadership is consumed by a different priority: impeachment.
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[2026-03-28 03:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Philippine Institute for Development Studies classifies Filipino households into socioeconomic strata based on estimated monthly income ranges. In 2025, Class A (considered rich) comprises those earning more than P219,140, while Class B (upper middle, but not yet rich) covers those earning between P131,483 and P219,140.
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[2026-03-28 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KATHMANDU — Nepal’s rapper-turned-politician mayor Balendra Shah is the new prime minister of the Himalayan nation of 30 million people, just over six months since mass anti-corruption protests toppled the government.
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[2026-03-28 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-03-28 02:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: ATLANTA — Georgia’s Fulton County will ask a federal judge on Friday to order the return of 2020 election ballots the FBI seized as it pursues Republican President Donald Trump’s false claims that his electoral defeat that year was the result of widespread voter fraud.
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[2026-03-28 02:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The Russian government hopes to reopen beaches along the southern Black Sea coast this summer as cleanup efforts from the December 2024 oil spill near completion, officials said Friday.
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[2026-03-28 02:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — Mongolia ’s Prime Minister Zandanshatar Gombojav resigned Friday after rising tensions within the ruling Mongolian People’s Party and a parliamentary boycott by the opposition.
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[2026-03-28 02:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Fulham’s Issa Diop speaks to Fulham’s head coach Marco Silva during the English Premier League soccer match between Fulham and Liverpool in London, on Jan. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
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[2026-03-28 02:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes will serve just over 10 years behind bars after a federal judge trimmed her prison sentence by a year — while stressing her massive fraud still warrants serious punishment.
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[2026-03-28 02:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: A growing number of filers are facing tax refund delays amid a government-wide phaseout of paper checks.
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[2026-03-28 02:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Austria’s governing coalition on Friday announced plans to ban social media use for children under 14, joining a string of other countries in drawing up restrictions for young people.
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[2026-03-28 02:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Virat Kohli plays a shot during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals in Bengaluru, India, April 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)
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[2026-03-28 01:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Israel Defense Forces is “on the verge of collapse” due to acute personnel shortages, Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has warned, according to local media. Opposition parties have accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of stalling on drafting ultra-Orthodox Jews.
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[2026-03-28 01:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Israel Defense Forces is “on the verge of collapse” due to acute personnel shortages, Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has warned, according to local media. Opposition parties have accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of stalling on drafting ultra-Orthodox Jews.
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[2026-03-28 01:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: STOWE, Vt. — Looking back, gubernatorial candidate Dean Roy says his political ambitions started in the eighth grade. And by that he means, last year.
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[2026-03-28 01:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday firmly denied that Moscow is providing intelligence support to Iran, amid accusations from the European Union that Russia is aiding Tehran in targeting U.S. forces in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-28 01:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: PARIS — France on Friday called the International Olympic Committee's new policy on gender testing to determine eligibility to compete in women's events a "step backwards", but other countries welcomed the move.
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[2026-03-28 01:40 UTC+10:00] [Lucy Letby] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Force issues strongly worded rebuttal after Tory former cabinet minister alleges ‘egregious failures’ in call for review
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[2026-03-28 01:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Islamabad, Pakistan – In the middle of 1971, at the height of the Cold War, a Pakistani government plane carrying US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger flew overnight from Islamabad to Beijing. The trip was secret, the facilitator was Pakistan, and the geopolitical consequences were generational.
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[2026-03-28 01:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Norway is set to raise defence spending by 3.5 percent of its gross domestic product to compensate for rising military equipment costs and to adjust to lessons learned from the Ukraine war, the government says.
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[2026-03-28 01:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers are receiving their third paycheck of zero dollars on Friday amid the DHS shutdown — with President Donald Trump saying late Thursday he would sign an executive order to “immediately pay our TSA Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation” and “quickly stop the Democrat Chaos at the Airports,” and as the Senate advanced a new, last-minute deal in the wee hours of Friday morning.
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[2026-03-28 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australian politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The Nationals have canvassed a vision of the future with bigger families. Pronatalist policies aren’t new – but they’re looking increasingly partisan
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[2026-03-28 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Gas] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Government, industry and opposition see growing public support for a new gas tax but the industry is fighting back
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[2026-03-28 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Indigenous Australians] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Just four of the 17 Closing the Gap targets are on track – but in the Dates-Dungay family, it’s a different story
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[2026-03-28 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry go for a deep dive into the South Australian election outcome and what it means for federal politics. They examine what the results tell us about preferences and why the Liberals should be cautious when placing One Nation second on the ballot. They also discuss whether Anthony Albanese has any appetite for tax reform in the upcoming budget, whether the fuel crisis could take a turn for the worst against Labor, and why Andrew Hastie
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[2026-03-28 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Petrol prices] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Unions and farmers call for government intervention as agriculture, construction and waste industries also at risk from higher prices
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[2026-03-28 00:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee found Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) broke campaign finance laws and committed other violations by taking more than $5 million in federal relief and funneling much of the money toward her political aspirations.
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[2026-03-28 00:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Transgender women athletes are now excluded from women's events at the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy on Thursday which aligns with U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order on sports ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games.
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[2026-03-28 00:29 UTC+10:00] [Philippines] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Manila has been forging closer ties with several Nato members amid tensions between the transatlantic security alliance and the US
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[2026-03-28 00:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Two US lawmakers are seeking to impose sanctions on officials in Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government, citing Budapest’s stance on Russian energy imports and its ongoing diplomatic dispute with Ukraine.
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[2026-03-28 00:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Qatar’s prime minister has held talks with senior US officials in Washington, DC, amid the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran and fallout across the Gulf.
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[2026-03-28 00:00 UTC+10:00] [US voting rights] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Peter Ticktin, a Florida lawyer, is promoting a legally dubious plan experts say could sharply restrict voting rights
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[2026-03-27 23:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A bill "aimed at combating renewed forms of antisemitism", which is due to be debated on by parliament next month, has sparked a heated controversy in France in recent weeks.
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[2026-03-27 23:47 UTC+10:00] [Hong Kong] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office says its director, Xia Baolong, visited Guangzhou, Zhaoqing, and Foshan this week
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[2026-03-27 23:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is not discounting a proposal to repeal the Oil Deregulation Law to allow the government to regulate oil prices and intervene in securing oil supply. However, Marcos said the government was focused on delivering 'immediate' solutions to the energy problems at the moment.
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[2026-03-27 23:30 UTC+10:00] [Xinhua] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Latest regulations lay bare dual mandate of absolute loyalty to central authority and mindfulness about ‘political performance’
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[2026-03-27 23:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Another teen is running for governor of Vermont, and this time, he’ll be on the general election ballot. (AP Video: Amanda Swinhart)
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[2026-03-27 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ProPublica
Snippet: For years, Utah allowed government officials to do something other states banned: ask a person who reports a sexual assault to take a polygraph test.
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[2026-03-27 22:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: European government bonds continued to sell off on Friday, building on a rout that has seen multiple countries' borrowing costs hit multi-decade highs in recent weeks.
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[2026-03-27 22:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Crystal Palace’s head coach Roy Hodgson waits for the start of the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Crystal Palace at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England, Saturday, Dec.16, 2023. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson, File)
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[2026-03-27 22:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Initiating peace talks in the Iran war "is no easy task," but it would be "conducive to restoring normal navigation through the Strait of Hormuz," Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said during a call with his Pakistani counterpart on Friday.
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[2026-03-27 22:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: The British government has alerted UK tourists travelling to the Schengen area around Easter about the full implementation of EU’s new Entry/Exit border system (EES), urging travellers to allow additional time for journeys.
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[2026-03-27 22:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Nigeria's Lagos state has taken out a $7.5 million flood insurance policy to cover millions of people, the Insurance Development Forum said Thursday, as the country's economic capital faces rising sea levels and floods linked to climate change.
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[2026-03-27 22:27 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The deal would mean TSA staff, who screen airport passengers, baggage and cargo, would start being paid for the first time since mid-February
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[2026-03-27 22:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Dushyanth Weeraman has been restrained from performing the song “Nelum Wilen Pana” after the Colombo Commercial High Court found that he had been performing it as his own without obtaining permission from the creator. The enjoining order was issued today(27).
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[2026-03-27 22:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump’s name is seen on the U.S. Institute of Peace building, Dec. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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[2026-03-27 22:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A UK woman who claimed more than $30,000 in government benefits while claiming her anxiety was so crippling she couldn’t even leave the house was caught surfing and ziplining on vacation in Mexico.
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[2026-03-27 22:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo warned on Thursday that hostilities between the government and the AFC/M23 are spreading beyond the traditional epicenter of North and South Kivu into Tshopo Province, far from the front lines.
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[2026-03-27 21:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Balendra Shah, Nepal’s youngest prime minister, has been sworn in after his party’s landslide election victory following protests led by young people that toppled the government in September.
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[2026-03-27 21:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A discussion on the challenges facing Sri Lanka’s foreign employment sector amid the ongoing tensions in the Middle East was held yesterday (26) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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